Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Keenan

Receiving this prestigious award is a fantastic achievement and a credit to all involved with the club.

Jamil Moledina

Recognizing and showcasing individual achievement in the creation of games is a core principle of the GDC. For that reason, we are proud to produce and host the Choice Awards.

John Wallace

Our reports represents only a small step toward alleviating the public's confusion about global warming, but at least it's a positive one. Our most important achievement is reaching a consensus among a diverse group of experts on an issue that has been hotly contested.

Nayyera Haq

Our policy is when there is a group or individual who is recognized for some award or some achievement, Congressman Salazar feels it's fitting to put a tribute in the Congressional Record .

Madelyn Flannagan

Participation in the annual Best Practices Study has become a prestigious achievement for those that qualify for inclusion. It means the agency is among the best in the country. To be the top performer in one of the study's peer revenue groups means that agency is the 'best of the best.' It is an outstanding accomplishment.

John Lilly

Particularly when people look at the makeup of our team and some of the things we've been through, with playing more freshmen than anybody in America and having some really potentially, what could have been devastating, injuries. And then to be able to kind of pull it all together and still win the conference is a tremendous achievement for a team that I think most people felt like was probably a year away.

Marsha Wienert

Passing the 7 million milestone was a tremendous achievement for our state's visitor industry.

Toby Lenk

Our most important achievement to date is having established a definitive online leadership position through our sole focus on the estimated $200 billion global market for children's products.

Chone Figgins

Stealing 50 bases is a great accomplishment; I credit my work ethic. I thanked all of my teammates because they let me steal the bases in front of them.

John Fitzpatrick

Really what they're doing is declaring that their view of the video is that it is not definitive. And that's almost by definition true. If there are a few people who say, 'I don't know if I can tell what that is,' then it's not definitive.

Sung Sohn

Our research shows the jobless rate is the best indicator of monetary policy, ... They have almost perfect correlation.

David Reilly

Our population base that's over 65 is almost double the state average. Obviously, we are particularly vulnerable to reimbursement cuts to Medicare.

Gary Pinkel

Our recruiting was almost over by the time we played our bowl game. Everything's so much faster now and it's amazing how quick things go.

James Grady

Patrice and I have taken in almost the same amount. We're almost neck and neck.

Katrina Otto

Patients have assessment and contact with a medical professional almost immediately when they walk in.

Michael Greco

Our laws and attitudes on immigration have been almost schizophrenic. At times we have thrown open our nation's doors virtually without limit; at other times we have tried vainly to build walls - legal and physical. Today our laws reflect that confusion.

Jerry Siegel

Our nation has paused to reflect on their special brand of courage in the face of almost unimaginable hardship and abuse,

Ed Farmer

People need to be a little more lenient with him. There is a lot being thrown at him. There's no fear, which is good, and he's doing a nice job with the analysis. We're trying to work in the play-by-play, and people might think it's easy, but it's not. It's not molecular science, either, but it's not easy. And he's getting the pacing. It's almost a poetic measure of speech. You get the rhythm, and people get into the rhythm with you. I'll be very surprised if he isn't doing two innings of play-by-play by the end of the season.

Atharva Veda

Renouncement of evils and sins helps in the attainment of prosperity and success.

James Stephens

There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.

Louis D. Brandeis

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Benigno Aquino III

My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.

Arnold Palmer

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Bhagavad Gita

They prescribe various specific rites for the attainment of pleasure and power to those who are full of desires, and hold the attainment of heaven as the highest goal of life. The rebirth is their fruit of action.

Ella Wilcox

If you are seeking health, wealth, usefulness, skill in any direction, there is nothing and no one who can hinder your attainment of the coveted boon, if you are willing to work and wait.

John Abernethy

There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.

Henry Mayhew

The attainment of the truth, then, will be my primary aim; but by the truth. I wish it to be understood, I mean something more than the bare facts.

Scott Henderson

That could have been me. Those barriers literally force you onto the road ... there's nowhere to go.

Michael Doyle

Our goal is to bring building professionals in Northern California the best practices in the construction industry, and this includes bridging the gap between conventional construction and sustainable building and demonstrating the financial, social and environmental return for all parties involved. We believe a valuable consensus is emerging for delivering on this inclusive value proposition and we are removing all barriers to entry to this knowledge.

Scott Bowles

I think that all of the reality TV shows have broken down barriers for us,

Manmohan Singh

I believe there is a perception in Indian trade and industry circles that the European market is becoming increasingly difficult to penetrate. As tariff barriers disintegrate, non-tariff barriers suddenly come up,

Dr. Hedberg

There are still some barriers to some particular jobs that are more high paying jobs like high-level executives, CEOs of companies that women just aren't in the proportion that men are in.

Laura Stark

Barriers aren't going to work. They are going to get around them, they are going to innovate. The next point is to try to safely enable them.

John Franklin

. . . Historical facts are all pervasive and cut through the most rigid barriers of race and caste.

Mel Martinez

Unless we make sure that everyone is participating in this great economic expansion and until we ensure that barriers to home ownership are torn down for everyone, until then, our job is not done.

Cato Institute

We have to acknowledge that individuals can face transition costs when trade barriers come down,

Rick Cornett

Regardless of who we were going to play against, we were going to play strong and were determined to play well down there.

Donald Powell

Rebuilding should not become an exercise in centralized planning. If federal bureaucrats determine the path of rebuilding, local insight and initiative will be overrun and local needs overlooked.

Donn Walker

Our policy is to let each resort determine its own smoking policy.

Ron Carlson

Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

Robert Mckain

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mark Wilde

Steve Rogel is a very determined individual. He's got a big checkbook and he's not going away.

Susan Aspey

State and local officials determine staffing needs. We don't dictate hiring decisions.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Ken Stone

Stand back and look at the big picture. Have you ever stopped and wondered why people shop at your business? Determine your strengths and weaknesses and go from there.

Gary Sheffield

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

Seth Shostak

A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.

Robert Waters

I guess I'll just have to stop more frequently to get fuel little by little.

Bob Edwards

The people that show up here are wanting a job, they are wanting to get back into society. The problem is that society hasn't frequently let them back in.

David A. Bednar

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

Clint Eastwood

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Bill Owens

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Charles Francis Richter

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

Ben Carson

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Chuck Palahniuk

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

Ken Williams

I've never made a New Year's resolution before. I didn't think about it until now.

Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

David Christian

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

David Eagleman

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

Christopher Nolan

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

James Galway

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

James Galway

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

Martin Freeman

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

David Spears

That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.